ern_ave

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by ern_ave 16d ago
Would you mind writing that up in more detail and posting it somewhere? It sounds pretty interesting.
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by ern_ave 1mo ago
Write your duress PIN on the back of the phone. I guarantee you the first cop that sees it will go, "LOLOL!!!! HIS PASSWORD IS RIGHT THERE!!! LOLOL" and immediately enter it.
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by ern_ave 1mo ago
> What will be the first device to bottle up AI and other modern technologies in a package and become widely in-demand One problem I see is that corporations insist on collecting and reselling our data. As a result, a lot of people are r
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by ern_ave 3mo ago
Given the source code leak, I would think there'd be open source versions by now.
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by ern_ave 3mo ago
> there is no 'profit' step. You have to learn to think like a drug dealer. The first hit is always free. Companies and developers are growing more and more dependent on coding agents. Eventually, the owners of the AI will be a
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
> 99% of the traffic now is AI scraping the sources I wonder if we should stop fighting this and instead create an API specifically for this purpose? Or, a central repository that you could send your data to and say to anyone wanting to
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
If this is viral marketing for a typewriter company, it's genius.
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
There's no such thing as a zomboni roomba?
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
Sorry. I meant to write, "population under a hundred million"
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
> Programming competitions are not the same as real-world engineering That's true but irrelevant. Nothing is "the same" as anything else. My question was, what evidence is there that offshore Indian devs are of high qualit
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
> "offshore Indian devs" are no slouches. What evidence is there of the quality of Indian devs specifically? One signal I'd expect to see, for example, would be success in programming competitions. Here's the list of
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by ern_ave 4mo ago
> AI data centers crowd us out. Here's a test to know if this is/will be true: look for a situation where the "needs" of AI (e.g. land, electricity, etc) conflict with the needs of people (e.g. land to live on, grow f
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
8 inch floppies! wow.
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> Are you serious? Yes. > Like, actually serious? Actually, yes. > Killing someone for pushing you over is not "self defense". > This is a category error. No, it's a definition error on your part. Let's defin
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> The question should be: why do you have a right to bring a gun to a fist fight? Great question. The answer is: bad people are often significantly stronger than their victims. Have you ever seen this video [1]? The woman is 72 years old
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> you just reject sources that you either can't understand or don't like That's a lie. I rejected the source for a valid reason. You could try addressing my rebuttal.
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
Great! So, let's start with your first study. Note this quote: > it is possible that conservatives’ relatively low accuracy about political information is a by-product of the fact that issues used in forming this assessment were sel
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
I'm having a hard time understanding your point. Here's what I think just happened: Me: I value the right to self defense You: Guns are used for self harm more often than self defense [as an aside, I don't disagree that this
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> I have no clue what I just read A lot of people are incapable of contending with hypotheticals or thought experiments. It's okay. If you'd like to try again, I encourage you to read up to the point where something doesn'
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> you ignored everything else that I said Well, you started by altering a quote. Is it unreasonable for me to call that out and stop there?? Try to imagine that this comment you're reading now said: > > you ignored the irrelev
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> "I'd love to hear any additional ideas except those that work everywhere because that'd require big changes" When you pretend to quote someone, but you alter the quote, you're being dishonest. What you just did
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> I would think that the right to life would take precedence Well, let's do a thought experiment to test this. Which of these two rights takes precedence: (1) life (specifically in this case, the right to not be murdered) or (2) fre
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
I'm interested to see any studies you can find on this topic. Here are some studies that I have: Equalitarianism: A Source of Liberal Bias [1] - in study 6, liberals were shown to be ...pretty racist. You claimed the Right believes fak
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
> Maybe if there was work done to stop the shootings It's odd that you seem to believe no work has been done. Lots of work has been done. Lots more work is blocked by people who steadfastly refuse to punish criminals - claiming inst
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by ern_ave 5mo ago
I remember the epic flame wars with a certain game developer (who I wont name so as not to create drama here) whose starship simulator had a few bugs.
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by ern_ave 7mo ago
> I'm not sure what specific groups you mean The specifics are irrelevant. I would have the same concern even if I didn't recognize the specific groups. For example, do you know the difference between these two African ethnicit
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by ern_ave 7mo ago
Since the page mentions: > Better judgment around refusals Has any AI company ever addressed any instance of a model having different rules for different population groups? I've seen many examples of people asking questions like, &q
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by ern_ave 7mo ago
> US Department of War wants unfettered access to AI models I think the two of you might be using different meanings of the word "safety" You're right that it's dangerous for governments to have this new technology. W
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by ern_ave 7mo ago
> letting the LLM write my code for me is like letting the LLM play my video games for me. I'd love to get to the point where I'm still writing code, but the LLM is typing it for me. Part of the problem though, is that I actual
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by ern_ave 8mo ago
Can't you just point it at a local ollama? It'd be slower, but free (except for your electricity bill).

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